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Where did I learn to understand sculpture? In the woods by looking at the trees, along roads by observing the formation of clouds, in the studio by studying the model, everywhere except in the schools.

Auguste Rodin

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Auguste Rodin
Age: 77 †
Born: 1840
Born: November 12
Died: 1917
Died: November 17
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
Paris
France
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In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct nature, I incorporate myself into it it directs me. I can only work with a model. The sight of human forms nourishes and comforts me.
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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
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The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling.
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There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.
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To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature
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I invent nothing, I rediscover.
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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
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One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.
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Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.
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In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.
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My drawings are the result of my sculpture.
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If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy.
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As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings.
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I would have to talk for a year to repeat a single on of my works with words.
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Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.
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Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.
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True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
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The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.
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The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!
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